“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body”
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“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body”
“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse”
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted”
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out”
“It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age”
“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones”
“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards”
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age”
“Every generation needs regeneration”
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
“Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”